Salon.com > moby dick big read http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Listen to celebrities read “Moby-Dick” http://www.salon.com/2012/09/19/listen_to_celebrities_read_moby_dick/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/19/listen_to_celebrities_read_moby_dick/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:37:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13016484 Writer Philip Hoare and artist Angela Cockayne are sharing their love of Melville's American classic with the Moby Dick Big Read, a project that releases one downloadable audio chapter of the book per day with original illustrations. Each of the 135 chapters in this free cyber happening will be voiced by a different reader. The list includes celebrities and artists like Tilda Swinton, Benedict Cumberbatch and Anish Kapoor.

The idea comes from the creators' observation that "Moby-Dick is perhaps the most famous yet least-read of all American novels," telling the Guardian,"Everyone's scared of a book that long, they're scared of the length, they're scared of the content. But when you read it you realise it's incredible." Hoare even argues that the masterpiece is like "one long blog:"

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